Oracle VM VirtualBox: Ticket #5178: Upgrade from 2.2.4 to 3.0.8, stale GA reference - inaccessiblehttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5178
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After upgrading from 2.2.4 to 3.0.8 the GUI complained about some CD images not being accessible. It turns out a reference to the 2.2.4 GA iso still exists in the XML file, but the iso itself is gone.
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The Media Manager would not allow me to remove the stale entry even though it clearly displayed a message about the path being invalid.
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My guess at the cause for this would be the fact that the location of the GA iso moved, so the upgrade added a path for the new one, but it never cleaned up the old one. Hence the stale [frozen] entry for a nonexistent iso.
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To work around this I removed 3.0.8, installed 2.2.4 again, snagged a copy of the GA iso, removed 2.2.4 and installed 3.0.8 again, then edited the XML file to have the path to the copy I'd made of the 2.2.4 GA iso.
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To avoid the potential for this happening on the next upgrade, I've already snagged a copy of the GA iso...
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Trac 0.12sandervl73Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:46:28 GMTstatus changed; resolution sethttps://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5178#comment:1
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5178#comment:1
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<li><strong>status</strong>
changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em>
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<li><strong>resolution</strong>
set to <em>duplicate</em>
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That's a known problem and I'm pretty sure there's an open ticket for it already. We are working to get rid of such issues.
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